ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5550

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +438%

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Mar 2015

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

16

-

320

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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